What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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